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Wednesday, September 03, 2008
My New Book is Out!
My new book, A Second Course in Formal Languages and Automata Theory, is out!
Here's a web page that tells you a little more about the book. And, if you absolutely have to have your own copy, you can buy it at Amazon or Barnes and Noble.
Are there some sample chapters/pages? Looks like fun stuff -- everyone and their mother has lecture notes for a first class in automata theory, but you don't often see a lot of the advanced stuff.
Congrats! The "one second" comment reminds me of when I graduated (from Waterloo, natch) as part of the "sixty second convocation" (as printed on the programs).
Congrats. I didn't recall imcompressibility and looked in Lewis and Pap. to no avail, but did find it in Li and Vitanyi... And there is even a reference to "automaticity" almost at the bottom of the stack :-)
Cover graphics are from Craig? Sweet!!! Congratz on the book!
Totally unrelated, a paper on evolution research I liked that you might apprecitate: http://scienceblogs.com/loom/2008/06/02/a_new_step_in_evolution.php
I dunno, I think most people are gonna need more than one second to learn formal languages and automata theory.
ReplyDelete(sorry, dumb joke --- but congratulations on the new book!)
Congratulations on your book Jeff.
ReplyDeleteI did recognize Craig Kaplan's work on the cover.
Are there some sample chapters/pages? Looks like fun stuff -- everyone and their mother has lecture notes for a first class in automata theory, but you don't often see a lot of the advanced stuff.
ReplyDeleteMike:
ReplyDeleteI'll have to check with Cambridge to see what kinds of sample pages I can put up.
Congratulations! I can't wait to be confused by more of your course material.
ReplyDeleteCongrats! The "one second" comment reminds me of when I graduated (from Waterloo, natch) as part of the "sixty second convocation" (as printed on the programs).
ReplyDeleteOh, how I wish. That was one loooong afternoon.
Congratulations, Jeff!
ReplyDeleteThat's awesome! Congratulations!!!
ReplyDeleteDave S. said...
ReplyDeleteI think I'll wait for the movie. :)
Seriously, congrats.
Congrats. I didn't recall imcompressibility and looked in Lewis and Pap. to no avail, but did find it in Li and Vitanyi... And there is even a reference to "automaticity" almost at the bottom of the stack :-)
ReplyDeleteMike:
ReplyDeleteThe only sample pages so far are here:
http://tinyurl.com/6lpqvk
Click on "table of contents", "excerpt", "index", and "frontmatter" to see some examples.
Awesome! Congrats!
ReplyDeleteHow's that related to the picture of the afghan quilt on the cover?
ReplyDeleteDear unsympathetic:
ReplyDeleteIt is not an "Afghan quilt".
Cover graphics are from Craig? Sweet!!!
ReplyDeleteCongratz on the book!
Totally unrelated, a paper on evolution research I liked that you might apprecitate: http://scienceblogs.com/loom/2008/06/02/a_new_step_in_evolution.php